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Improving the documentation
If you haven’t heard, Microsoft is now updating the WDK documentation monthly and is now providing a way to download these updated docs to your computer. This update, just for documentation, can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/WDK/WDKdocs...
Tag, you're it
I’ve been spending the last couple of days tracking down a bug in a driver I am writing. The effort reminded me of how great tags on memory allocations and frees can be. Also, the work reminded me that there are at least a couple of features Microsoft...
Document explorer versus useful data
There is a trend in the tools coming out of Microsoft that is driving me nuts and in my opinion significantly hurting productivity. This trend is the shrinking of the amount of data that appears on the display and requiring more mouse clicks to get there...
Posted: May 30 2007, 02:21 PM by DonBurn | with no comments
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Bleeding edge and far from it
I am just back from WinHEC and while there I realized that many people including a number from Microsoft don’t distinguish developing for the leading edge from living there. I am known as a guy who has done a number of things that Redmond had said “Windows...
How tuned is your time machine?
How tuned is your time machine? No, I am not talking about DeLoreans with Flux Capacitors, but a tool almost all software development groups have but many use poorly, namely source control . A simple test of how well your source control system is doing...
Posted: Apr 27 2007, 12:03 PM by DonBurn | with 1 comment(s)
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